Career Highlights: Joydeep Karmakar is a right-handed Indian shooter from Kolkata, West Bengal. He started shooting from the age of 10 and was part of the North Kolkata Rifle Club. He began his competitive shooting career in 1994. Karmakar is a World Cup silver-medallist in 50m Rifle Prone. He failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics directly so the NRAI decided to offer him a quota place on the basis of impressive performances in the last year.